THE FIGURES
(SHOWING THE AMOUNT EACH STATE
AND COUNTRY CONTRIBUTED.
Secretary Kromor Prepare* a Statement
Sliinv lus the Amounts Sent to the Gov
ernor Direct—Total Contributions, about
•3,300,000.
IIABHISBURG, August 4.—Secretary Kre
mer, of the commission tor the distribu
tion of relief to the Pennsylvania !. d
sufferers, has had prepared a statcim . t
showing the amounts sent to the Cloven v
direct to the twenty-seventh of July
the different States, Territories and .'el
oign countries. This exhibit shows n
aggregate of $1,088,0CG;96 to have been
forwarded. The amount includes SIOO,-
000 contributed through the Mayor of
New York by the people of that city.
The total contributiono, including the
amount which passed through the Gov
ernor's bauds, reach about $3,800,000. of
which Pennsylvania lias given more than
half, only about $79,000 of which the
Governor received. One of the most gen
erous contributors is California, whi. h,
tbrougli different sources, sent to Gov
ernor Beaver nearly $90,000.
The following tabulated statement
shows the amount contributed by es;< :i
State to the Governor's fund :
Johnstown General
State. Fund. Fund.
New York S 90,47 imi $275,255 ia
Pennsylvania 36,280 40 52,5i1l 2V
New Jersey 29,089 11 27,07.) M
New Hampshire 12,178 88 702 82
Connecticut 24,51!) fit) 80,002 ft.
Massachusetts 40,890 an 28,752 JJ
Maine 6,186 8 80 00
Rhode island 2,220 2."> 26,fts i
Vermont 461 65 2.621 "o
Tennessee 2,624 75 2,271 <i
Mississippi 1,475 20 300 00
Kentucky ;.poi 26 0,365 61
Louisiana 3,71" 15 142 23
Alabama 3,048 70 11 10
south < aroltna 721 07 101 00
Maryland i,oi7 13 525 on
Georgia 2,908 25 3,441 35
NOIUI (.irollna 79181
Virginia 3,720 29 613.67
Kansas 2,1ftl 76 108 13
Nebraska 2,wis 85 8,317 59
Colorado 4,180 03 3,095 80
California 27,421 62 62,382 09
Florida 3.375 80 467 25
lowa 6,327 09 14,688 25
Minnesota 2,117 us 78 75
Texas 3,670 06 85 00
Oregon 3.133 75 175 60
West Virginia 47 59 1,123 73
Wisconsin 8,576 43 6,031 65
Michigan 6,425 65 1,649 01
Ohio 3,314 27 68,251 06
Arkansas 1,641 79 1,85S 50
Illinois 9,855 53 1,686 75 I
Missouri 680 15 10,005 00 '
Nevada Lioo 00 I
Indiana .' 3,488 50 !
New Mexico 89 25 .
Montana 399 00
Dakota 910 38
Arizona 317 00
Idaho 460 00 11 50
Utah 1,401 35
Wyoming 1,018 on
Washington 10000 2,400 oo
Washington, 1), c 2,275 o:> 23,170 no
Ireland- 2,130 no 12,148 60
Mexico 180 40
Canada ....... 3,937 65 500 00
England g.uuo on
Turkey 876 57
Italy 046
Austria 340 70
Germany 13,874 7 1.37 10
Miscellaneous from Gen
eral Hastings 255 05
Cash, small amounts 3 85 ~
Totals $390,188 21 >617.898 72
Death of Father llrown.
Rev. Father Brown, pastor oi the
Church of the Immaculate Conception at
Lilly's, who has been sick for some time,
died at that place oariy Sunday mormng.
Father Brown was the oldest priest in
this diocese. For a number of years be
was pastor of a church at Mt. Savage,
Md., but about 1808 or 'O9, was removed
from tiie Baltimore to the Pittsburgh
diocese.
He and Ilisliop Phclan were classmates,
and both entered the priesthood about the
same time.
We did not learn when bis funeral will
take place, but presume he will be buried
to-morrow.
The New Gautier.
The Cambria Iron Company have abo.it
completed tho work of sacuring po -•
session of all the lots fronting on l'oru
street, with a view of giving room for the
immense build ings necessary to accom
modate tho p roposcd new works of the
Gautier Sice! Department. All but one
or two of the owners readily agreed to
transfer their property for a fair and reas
onable compensation. Those holding
their lots, with a view of forcing
tlxc Company to pay a large, away-above
value price, arc certainly standing in the
road of the upbuilding and restoration of
our city.
A i(1 l'or Johnstown Masons.
Harrtsburg Patriot, of Saturday.
Clifford P. MacCalla, of Philadelphia,
Grand Master of Masons in Pennsylvania,
yesterday morning sent a check for >BB.-
000 to the Masonic Relief Committee
Johnstown, for distribution to members .
the Masonic fraternity, their widows, and
orphans, who were sufferers by the Hood.
Grand Master MacCalla visited Johnstown
last Saturday, and then, witli the a!
ance of the Johnstown brethren, arrungeu
the plan of distribution, whicli received j
their unanimous approval.
The 1 Jlim'nh ol Judge Cummin.
Judge Cummin is no better. Ilis friends'
fear fatal results, as he Ims worked itt-l
cessantly and his system is completely i
run down by the strain. It is to be hop-d I
the fear of bis friends arc not wi 1
grounded and that the Judge will spoedi
recover. His present trouble is malaria,
fever, in connection with inflammation o> 1
the kidneys.
Robert S. Millliam, of Ilackettstuwn, j
Pa., served in the war, and nfter it win
over. he deserted his wife and family, rut!
married another woman. He applied r 1
a pension, but it was not granted until at
ter his death, and wife No. 2 receive ,
$1,700 as back pension and a monthly
allowance. Wife No. 1 heard of the pen
sion granted and applied for it as Mill
ham's lawful widow. It was granted,and
the money wa? paid a second time. The
Government is now trying to recover the
money paid wife No. 2.
TH4 THEORIES OF LEPROSY.
THREE WAYS VY WUIVH THE VIS
EASE MAY EE TA KB.
The Idea That a Diet of Uatlly Cooked
Fhh Will Hrlng on the Dread Malady
1* Not Considered of Any Weight by
Scientists—.Evlcluitee That u Healthy
Person Cannot Contract the Diseaae.
Our knowledgo is largely inferential,
and the facts which come under our in
dividual notice and point in some partic
ular direction naturally impross us more
than those whloh are observed by other
persons, whioh perhaps may lead to a
different conclusion. According to the
principal theories in vogue in recent
limes leprosy may be acquired by (1) he
redity, (2) by a diet of imperfectly cooked
or decomposing lisb, and (3) by conta
gion. The Norwegian physioians for
many years supported tho doctrine of
heredity, and to this day numerous ob
servers in ail parts of th' world consider
that the disease is trans, 'ted from gen
eration to generation.
As Jonathan Uutchinson has well
shown, and as all of us know, English
men and others who have no family taint
are occasionally liable to become leprous
when thoy dwell in countries whero tho
disease is opidemic. Heredity has,
therefore, sometimes, at any rate, noth
ing whatever to do with its develop
ment. Were leprosy to any material
extent hereditary wo might reasonably
expdet to find cases among the descend
ants of the lepers who liavo emigrated
from Norway to tho United States.
Dr. Hansen, who recently visited
North America for the purpose of investi
gating this question, found, however,
that of the 100 Norwegian lepers who
had settled in tho states of Wisconsin,
Minnesota, and Dakota, none of the off
spring—in some casos as iar as the
great grandchildren—have shown signs
of the disease. With the eminent ex
ception of Jonathan Hutchinson, tho
"iish theory" lias now little seientiile
support. Although tho principal centers
of leprqsy aro often in districts, as on tho
coast of Norway, where iish, frequently
in ah uncooked, salted, or dried state,
forms a staple article of food, we must
rcmembqr that tho disease is widely pre
valent whore iish is raroly or never
euten, o. g., in some inland distriots of
India, China, and Brazil, and that num
bers of individuals in Scandinavia,
Africh, and elsewhere, who largely con
sume fish, and oven stale flsh, never de
velop tho disease.
A belief in the contagiousness of lep
rosy was formorly almost universal, with
the result that rigorous mousures of iso-
lation were nearly everywhere adopted;
cut during the last half century tho
"contagion theory" has fallon somewhat
■uto abeyance— at least in tho modieal
nind—mainly in consequenco of the ar
guments of Drs. Danielson and Boeck in
their colebrated treatise published in
1818, and of tho authoritative expression
of opinion on the part of the committee
of the Royal College of Physicians in
1867, whose valuable report, as his royal
highness tho Prince of Wales has stated,
was drawn up after extensive inquiries
carried out under tho duko of Newcas
tle.
At the present time, however, the
view that the disease can be contracted
by the healthy from those who are suf
fering from leprosy is undoubtedly gain
ing ground, aud facts are certainlv accu
mulating which point to this conclusion.
It must, nevertheless be admitted, on
tho one hand, thatthero is a vast amount
of negative evidence in reference to tho
communicability of leprosy from person
to person, and, on the other, that the
supporters of the theory are able to pro
duoe but very few clear and trustworthy
which cannot bo otherwise ac
counted for than by puro contagion.
In the words, however, of a Dublin
physician who has published almost us
good an instance of the communica'oillty
of leprosy from ono man to another as it
is possible to obtain, "ono fragment of
positive evidence carries more weight
than a vast amount of negative evidence."
The important discovery of Dr. Hansen
in Norway that a certain microscopic
fungus mueh resembling that which is
characteristic of "tubercle," is always to
be found in the diseased tissues of u
loper—an observation Which has been
bver and over again corroborated by
pathologists in all parts of tho world—
:ias had much to do with the growing be
lief that leprosy must be regarded as a
specific infective "bneillary" disease.—
Fortnightly Review.
I Tile Kurlitst Stumling Army*
Tlio earliest standing army in Europe
, was that of Macedonia, established
j ibout 358 B. C, by l'hilip, lather of Alex
! tnder tho Great. It was the second in
I ilie world's history, having been preceded
-lily by that of Sosostris Plutarch of
l'lgypt, who organized a military caste
about 11100 B. C. Of modern standing
armies thai formed by the Turkish Janis
saries was first, being fully organized in
1302. It was a century later that the
standing army of I ranee, the earliest in
western Europe, was o established by-
Charles VII., in the shape of compagnica
i' ordonnaneo, numbering 0,000 men.
livalry thereupon compelled tho nations
> adopt similar means of defence. In
England a standing army proper was
rst established by Cromwell, but was
isbauded under Charles 11., with the
caption of a few regiments callod the
i ife Guards, or Household Brigade.
. hie was tin- nucleus of our present
my which, thou ~ > practically a stand
g army, is not legally so, being pro
wiled for front your to year by the annual
trmy act.—Tixohungo.
of Thought.
It takes about two-iifths of a second
o call to mind a country in which a well
known town is situated, or tho language
a which a familiar author wrote. We can
'bink of the nanto of the next month in
alf the time we need to think of tho
mo of the last month. It takes on the
iverage one-third of a second to add
lumbers consisting of one digit, und
all' a second to multiply them.
A letter can bo seen more quickly than
• word, but we are so used to reading
loud that tho process has become quite
itonjatlc, and a word can bo read with
enter ease and in less time than a let
r can be named. Mental processes,
owdVer, take place more slowly in chil
: in, in the aged, and in the unedu
ated.—Exchnnge.
A tiUte Delivery.
Th e proprietor of a hotel in Halle re
lied tho other day from the postman a
.tor which had been lying sineo Sept.
, 1875, or nearly fourteen years, firmly
umed in tho crevice of a letter box at
io villago of Brehna, whore it had been
posted. The box in question had been
mdergoing rep,airs, when tho letter was
found and scrupulously delivered to the
uddyesse, who has meanwhile freouently
;htthg od his place of abode. Fortunately
'he dbntents were of no great Importance.
—General Anzeiger.
PREACHER ASU POLITICIAN.
How Sam Stover Replied to Old Rey
nold! at a Campaign Meeting.
There isn't any doubt that Sam Jones
is an orator, and one of the most inter.
a preachers in the American pulpit
other pulpit, as to that mattes
it is Saw Jonos should never bo
reported. You just want to listen to
hfan. There is a mighty eight of differ
ence between listening to his peculiar
and oftentimes startling sayings, ut
tered in his quuint southern way, and
reading them in ice cold typo. You see
in one case ho has gotten hold of your
sympathy and in the other case he
hasn't.
I don't know about tho success of his
efforts as an evangelist. They may be
vory great, but somehow they always re
mind me of Sam Stover's retort on Gid
Reynolds up in Renssoluor county, N.
Y. Sam Stover had been piously brought
up, was rather of a serious turn of mind,
took to theology early and became a
Methodist preacher. But somehow, after
a time, Sam foil into the error of his ways,
gave uj) the pulpit and became a lawyer
! and a Democrat politician, a trifle ad
[ dieted to tho wine cup maybe and all
that; in fact, Sam became one of "tho
boys." But whether preacher, lawyer,
I politician or "boy," Sam was always a
wit, an orator and a good fellow, ami so
very popular of course.
Old Reynolds was a local politician
with a country reputation, living in one
of those country towns in tho country
whleh used to send down Republican
majorities that tho good Democratic city
of Troy sometimes found it difficult to
overeomo. Gid was a respectable man
enough and temperate, too, but hail a
very red face, tho result of erysipolas, or
something like that, and didn't look the
least like a Prohibitionist. Welj, Sam
was up in Gid's neighborhood, pounding
away on the desk of the teacher in a
country school house, in enunciation of
good Democratic doctrine, when Gid,
iv ho was an interested and antagonostio
listener, interrupted with somesnoering
allusion to the fact that Sam had been u
preacher. Sam paused for a moment
and then in a solemn tone switched off
on a sldo in the following manner:
"It is true, gentlemen," quoth Sam.
•1 wes once a groat deal better man
than i am now. No ono can regret tho
change more than I, It is true .1 once
was a Methodist prcachor. Some of you
will recollect that I had some success in
that caßiug. And among my converts,
gentlemen, was the person whose polttei
and courteous remark you havo just lis
tened to. Look at him, gentlemen; ox
amine him critically, anil I am sure you,
will come to the conclusion that ho lobka
a ilouced sight more like my work than
he does like God's."—Pendlo L. Jowott.
In his Study.
Sending a Plrtnre by Telegraph.
The lav simile telegraph, by which 1
manuscript, maps or pictures may bo
11 ansmittcd, is a species of the auto
matlo method already described, in which
the receiver is actuated synchronously
with its transmitter.
By Lenoir's method a picture or map>
is outlined with insulating ink upon tho
cylindrical surfaoo of a rotating drum,
which revolves under a point having a
alow movement along the axis of tho
cylinder, and thus the conducting
point goes over tho cylindrical sur
face in a spiral path. The electri
cal circuit will be broken by every
ink mark on the cylinder whloh is in this
path, and theroby corresponding murks
are made in a spiral line by an ink marker
upon a drum at the leceiving end. To
produce these outlines it is only neces
sary that the two drums be rotated in
unison.
This system is of little utility, there
being no apparent demand for fae simile
transmission, particularly at so great an
expense of speed, for it will bo seen that
in-lead of making a character of the al
phabet by a few separate pulses, as is
done by Morse, the number must be
greatly increased. Many dots become
necessary to show tho outlines of the
more complex characters. The panteie
graph is an interesting typo of tho fac
simile method. In this form tho move
ments of a pen in the writer's hand
produce corresponding movements of a
pen at the distant station, and thereby
a fae simile record. —Scribuer's.
Tile Beaconrtliclfl Primrose.
Lord lieaconsileld's fondnoss for the
primrose originated when he was living
In Highbury, London. Hore he wus
much attached to a young lady residing
in 1 ho same locality, who was the daugh
ter of a gcntlonian of good property. At
a ball given at that gentleman's house
the young luay in quostion wore a wreath
of primroses. A discussion arose be
tween Mr. Disraeli and another gentle
man, as to whether the primroses were
real or not. A bet of a pair of gloves was
made, and on the .young lady being con
sulted, and the primroses being exam
ined, tho bet was won by Mr. Disraeli.
The primroses wore real primroses,
and the young lady gave two of them to
the future prime minister, which he put iu
his buttonhole and kept, nnd used to
show lon : afterwards. Some have
thought t at because the queen sent a
wreath <■ primroses to Lord Beacons
tield's f- ral the flower became his
badge in that way. This is a mere in
vention. Iho queen did not know at the
time that the primrose was Lord Beu
i insiield's favorite flower, and she did
no., consequently, send u wreath of prim
roses to his funeral at all. Others have
entertained tho opinion that the noblo
lord appreciated tho ilower because ho
says iu one ol'hii novels that the prim
rose make uu oieollent salad. This is
incorrec again, and the true history of
tho way the ; imroso became tho noble
lord's fuvoriti lower is recorded above.
—Washington -Tess.
\>\v Insulating Muteriul.
Considering the importance of the
part insulating now plays in various
electrical applications, it is Interesting
to fioto that a now insulating material
lis a; | ared in Germany. It consists
oi paper, which has been thoroughly
>- •akeo in uu ammoniacal copper solu
ti HI. The pasty muss is then pressed
again -1 the conducting wires to be eov
c ed by moans of rollers, and tho whole
is Anally submitted to strong pressure.
When dry tho covered wire is passed
through a bath of boiling Unseed oil and
left in it until the covering is saturated.
This makes it elastic and irapermoablo
to moisture. Tho covering is said to be
durable and eminently ellieiout aso non
conductor—-Exchange.
C'nitlo I-'ooil from .Slnrcli Koftist*.
Among the latest Ainoriean patents Is
ono for a process of obtaining dry food
for the animals from the refuso of starch
nnd glucose. Tho coarso refuso is first
subjected to pressure to free it from
water, and to it is added the lino refuse,
containing tho glutinous and nitrogeno
ous parts of tho grain. This combina
tion is subjected to pressure to express
tho greater part of the moisture, und
finally placed under tho influence of heat
for tfie purpose of evaporating the re
maining moisture—Exchange.
GOLD FIND IN AUSTRALIA.
; THEWILD EXCI i) MKNT OF A SCRAM
BLE FUR CLAIMS.
How Tliey ore P> -_ ;• <! Out and How Din
pates are Selllwl V. : l hunt Resource to
Deadly Weapon* Combine i Made to
Hold Seel lons Pegged l': 3liep'ierd
ingaClaim to Preserve Uanerihlp.
When gold is discovered, the fact Is In
dicated by hoi* ~,g lt i,.,j n af , i , i ma _
! tion is given a. the near.- -l lanunffice,
nud an officer sent down u> report ou tiie
prospi ct. li I hey are good, a warden Is
appointed ; after u in * ihe district is
proclaimed us a gold Held, hen any man
may come along and p< ■ out a certain
section of tho laud and dig for gold, pro
vided ho has paid tho government the
sum of ten shillings for doing so for one
year.
The warden's chief duty is to Issue
these licenses, decide between rival ap
plicants for claims, and take magisterial
charge ol the district.. Although no muu
is recognized us being in possession of
ground before proclamation is tuudo, the
man who gets his pegs in and keeps
them there lias the best chance of get
ting ultimate possession. A man who
i tries to mark out it motion single-handed
stands a poor chain eof succeeding, even
supposing lie got hi pegs in, for, uefore
the warden, ho would bo overwhelmed
by tiie weight of testimony against him
of his neighbors, who would swear lie
wasn't there at all. Hence, experienced
miners always form a party of four or
more, and having once located u claim,
prepare to hold it, "vi ot arm is," against
allcomers. In this relation it may bo
observed that tho persuasive argument
of tho six-shooter and bowio knife is very
seldom brought iuio requisition in the
colonies. It is against the law to have or
carry such weapons, either concealed or
openly, ami since it is not customary to
carry them, they are seldom brough
into use.
When a dispute occurs—and the Aus
traliau is sufficiently pugnacious—a ring
is formed, it is seen that both combat
ants receive fair play, and tho question
at issue is decided in the good old fash
ion known to our forefathers, by dint of
personal prowess and skill in tho use of
the bauds.
I t was more than a week aftor my ur
rivol that due proclamation of the Held
was made, says a correspondent of the
Pittsburg "Dispatch," but in the mean
while the miners had not been idle, and
the whilom cover of the kangaroo,
wallaby, and brush turkoy was changed
into the habitat of man. A street ran
the length of tho gully, bordered on
either side by shanties made of rough
timber and tho bark of tho blue gum.
At one end stood a theater, und at the
other a church; there was a bank and
postotllce and stores. A town had sprung
up as if front the ground, and by the
eventful day of proclamation not a
1 ikely piece of ground was left unclaimed,
and 5,000 people had squatted in and
around the new town of Tentora.
As high noon of the fatal day drew
near, tho air was tilled with excitement.
The iiriug of a gun was lo imllcate'that
the moment of interest had arrived. J
took up a jiosition near tho center of the
guily, where the anxiety to secure a
piece of ground was keenest, Every
claim hereabouts had its score or more
claimants, each prepared with his
wooden peg when the decisive luomoir
Should arrive. Every party had : s
member at each corner prepared lo act
in concert; it was necessary that tlw
four pegs should go down at the same
time. Very silent and determined be
came each group as the hour approached,
and the scene, a few minutes before
noon of that day, was certainly an im
pressive one. No man conld tell but a
fortune lay under his feot.
Suddenly the report of a shot rang out
on the still midday uir. As if struck by
a tornado, tho various groups fell to the
ground to drive in their pegs. In an in
stant shouts and imprecations rose from
the struggling groups at each corner, as
every member of them pushed and jos
tled, and strove to get a peg into the
ground at the same time and spot as a
dozen others. Conceive hundreds of
squirming, gasping, struggling knots of
humanity, composed of units kneeling,
bending, iud lying prone on tho ground,
trying to teach one siuuil spot, resem
bling nothing so much us a scrimmage
in a game of foot-ball, but more deadly
in earnest, and some notion may be
gained of the scr no spread over tho ex
tent of the Held. Tho excitement was
terriilc. Men strove and fought as if
their future happiness depended on the
result. One man had his ear pegged to
the ground and another had his hand.
Others had arms and legs seriously in
jured, while some wore unrecognizable
in feature after the struggle on the
ground. But just as suddenly the ex
citement abated.
Tapes wore produced, and after care
ful measurements had been taken, the
claims we l c left in possession of those
whoso pegs were nearest tho proper
■nark, subject, of course, to the decision
of the warden, after a proper survey.
Then the work of opening up shafts
was commenced, lut not as rapidly as
would be supposed. Under the law regu
lating gold-mining operations, a claim
was held to bo abandoned if not worked
for tweuty-four hours. Accordingly at
li o'clock every day men issued from
their tents with shovel on shoulder,
and proceede i their res] tire claims.
A stranger arriving at this moment
would wonder at the air of activity
which pervaded the place.
Every man stepped on to his ground
and commenced to throw up the clay,
but when lie h id continued at this hard
task lor about iivo minutes, as if by
common impulse, every miner began
to shovel the Way hack again in an un
hurried aud solemn manner, and then
walked off to h tent to enjoy his pipe
and case after the laborious effort. This
was termed "shepherding" a claim, or
working it to preserve ownership.
The Pall of M.-tcorlc Iron.
A '.earned Dutch professor lias come
to the conclusion that every year the
weight of the earth is augmented by the
fulling on its surface of metaliio iron in
very fine powder, and that the iron which
comes to us from shooting stars falls
almost continually, sometimes aiono and
sometimes mixed with rain or snow. In
all snow lie found iron, in appreciable
<|uautitiOH, and in a state of fine subdi
vision. lie lin - in this way procured ma
terial enough to form a small charm,
which one of his friends wears attached
to his watoh chain.—London Tid Bits.
The First English Coachman.
Stow states that "in the yore 1564,
William lioouen, a. Dutchman, became
the queen's, Ellr.nheth's, coachman, and
was the tlrst that brought the use of I
coaches into England. After a while,
divers greet ladies with as great jeal
ousies of the queen's disploasore, made
tiiom eonelies, and rid ill them up and
down the counties, to the great admira
tion of nil beholders."
A LOUDER CALL.
"Belovert flock," tho parwn said, thou paused onfl
wiped his eyes:
"Ah pastor and an people we must never tender
ties;
I've a call to go to Uluuktown to be their chosen
pastor,
A call so loud, to disobey. I fear, would griovo the
Master."
Replied the p; tesina& of the flock: ' -hough
loud the <; \ay be.
We'll call you lnu *r to remain: an X for every V
These Dluui.. .!t offer you we'll give to
keep you .
We trust you . .aear .. voice diviuo. our call's so
loud aud .ear."
With s >bbin the parson Paul: "My duty 's
clearer u
ill • with u. In ovo I ones: to Heaven's will
i bow.
So 1 t us s.i ;j 'Blest Be the Tie.' aud sing it dear
and atroDT
To leave you \i ! e\ you call 10 loud would be ex
ceeding urui n\"
Then ii- his nth iy s it ho down, a letter to iuilite
CJiito th" i'hurch at IJlanktow. . Thu. did the par
son write:
"I'v • w r-jsii. i o\ ,• y -ur rail with prayer; the Lord
bid toe l<> stay, *
And, cousecrate t ' work, I dar.* not disobey/*
—Richmond Tlngram.
fishisu ii"TH A urn t.
Kxritiiii; :<;.* >o Hut! tihootlng
the c;t l>< Alio P;
Surf shi otlng i.- • actlsee ! ;on
anil Washington ten ory, but rhiv y in
the vicinity of anil to le noi, n <'>. ;> ..
Harbor, formerly r!i tho shco: .a. ttu
doue from the bench or from the bit i,
on• as tho otter becamescarcci , inemuo
ingiy wary, and s i more didic.ult lo ob
taiu, other met nods liud to be adopted.
The sea otter shooters of 'hi oast
devised the plan of buildings affoids in
the water out In yond the surf from which
to shoot. At lie lowest tulei in ;he
spring they p nt tirmly in the end
three or four long poles so that th".
shall form the angles of a tri ugle or of
a square. Tic e are braced l.y means
slats nailed from cue to thu other.
. hich also form a ladder by which -u
ascend, and at the top of tho poios <v
pial form is bio it with sides and a mo ,
forming a suili ;ien iy comfortable liouse,
10 l'eet above the \v: i cr's surface.
These shooting scaffolds, or ns they
are called locally, -derricks," give the
otter shooter gre-1 advantage. In dis
tance he gains -It)., to 500 feet, while the
elevation above tho water greatly ex-
tends both his range of view and that of
b title. In lair weather tli shooter
-os to his "derrick" before daylight in
morning and returns at night to tli •
snore, but sometimes, when the tide
high and a heavy surf is roiling, it may
be impossible for him to gvt to it for
week at a time, or lie may be nimble to
reach the beach for the same period,
lie skill ; 'aim d by these men in rlile
noting is s met I ing almost beyond bo
..ef. It will be loud ly understood tin:'
die head of the sea otter—tho only part,
that is S'"i; above the water —is a very
-mall mark, certi in. not more tha i
ii ee or fo u- inch. . . oiumeU r, and yet
i. is said these shooters not infrequent.!',
kill at a distance of a thousand yards.
Most of their .-hots are mm ■ at 2ubyuim
nd over. Tiioy two heavy iharp's rub
tilted with t< lescopiS si. li s, and shoot
ilways from u rest.
When the sen otter i- killed it sinks at
anee, and it may be several days or e
week before it rises to the surface
mil is bro-igi t by wind and current into
shore. :~e ntcrs • tnploy Indians o
patrol th- i•: -h and secure the aea,
animals, aud at occasional Instaue.
w!i<re the otter doc--. not sink do , ■ on
•mpioyed to bring it to land. Owing i
its exclusively niariue habits ami i -
<reat wariness, we may assume tn.it ;•
will bo many years before the last s.-u
st-or shall In vc been killed, but it must
always In a very rare animal.—Fores'
and Stream.
S 111 i '.I. iNI Cb Product*.
A trn\ or i t returned from P'u.
Francisco, . a oonniderablo stay m
that city, lelisthat v\ Impressed hitu
most was th ■ girls an . liie Ileus. Boils
are large in e and plentiiul iu num
bers.
"The wo;i i n are th > finest, looking
specimens v> -i evi r saw," says the your
u . ii. "They are woll developed, hi-alt it/
•ind hand >n: 1 coiuve I was duly
impressed. J a i tto thorn I thins
'he fleas tike up IO largest share of.
icntion. 1"' ex I ive no mosquitoc n.
San Francis >. t the —their u.a;:
is legion, l.i i, isville you froqueu.B
si e • : j ,g!i on .• aiivi ; Used for sal- .
Hut .ii sin ! : ni -iseo , is 'Rough ..:
Fleas.' You see the sign 'vorywhere. ii
is a favorite poisou for disconsolate ser
vant girls to commit suicide with, i
don't wonder that desperate measures
v. -re taken to got rid of the ban Franeiscc
Ilea. He is everywhere—in your clothes,
in your bods, in tlio carpet, iu the la n.-
ture. Ho is not a pleasant obje<
talk about, but in Km: Francisco he :
too prominent a feature to be ignored.
The Ilea is one of the principal objections
to the glorious climate ol' California."—
Louisviliu i'. -r.
The Fly as u Disease Carrier.
It has long i n known th ■ hou
ily ami various ol her files have v-en the
cause of malignant pustule by carrying
tiie contagion of anthrax from d ml
uiiiiiials or animal substances to man.
During the past year Dr. Atessl has been
experimenting with fiies to determine
their liability to spread the infection of
tuberculosis. The bacillus of this dis
ease was found in the intestines and the
excrement of flies which bad feasted on
tiiis- i-ulous sputa; and their dried fioees,
in wl loh, with the aid of the microscope,
the bacillus ivas known to exist, was
used for inoculating rabbits, and the
a nals bccaue tuberculous.
•cording to the "Annals d'Hyglene
„ i.olique," it ii in been found in tiie Nile
country that the granular opthulmia of
tiiat reigion can be spread by n etuis o:
house flies pn ieg from tlio eyes of
tiiosc who are infected with tlio disease
to other persons.—Exchange.
A $30,000 Feather.
At the apex of the Prince of Wales'
crown is a very curious feather, or rather
a tuft of feathers, each tip of which Is
adorned wit ha gold tassel. This feather
is the only one of the kind in tlio world,
and is wortii about ill), 000, says London
"Tid Bits." It took twenty years to got
it, and ausod the death of more than a
dozen hunters.
The bird from whoso tail the feathers
are plucked is called the foriwah— a sort
of creature of tho bird of Paradise spe
cies, but tho rarest kind. To obtain the
tail feather in its beauty it is necessary
to pluck it out of the living bird, as in
stantly alter death the plumage becomes
lusterloss. What makes the pur .utt of
the feriwnti so dangerous is that the bird
always inhabits the haunts of tigers, and
seems to have some strange affinity to
those terrible brutes.
Europe'* Oldest •Journalist.
The senior European Journalist Is Sir
Edward i;. ,of f.bods. He is over t!0
years of ago. and ho re pre enteffl his
father's paper at the Peterloo massacre
in I*l9, and is probauly the only sur
vivor ol that trugedy.—Exchange.
OUR SPORTING LETTER.
Tils Currents of J.lfe us They BloW In *1
Gat hum.
K Vouk, July 2.
/HY there should
i.e a disposition
on (ho part of
mor o than one
racing assoeia- ,
tion, scarcely dU- J
guised, to forou
" t ' lu I"' es9 into
> saying solely I
' '••y'V', ''" l is 'lcsil'Pt! '
• J ■ hud nothing tl#:
V***V 'VWr-y*'- can oven lo cm
□ •.trued into cri'ii- J
ct m, it is hard to sec. Ido not say that
iln-ro is, but there seems to bo, ami mati
;ers of r:i lag associations will do
well to guard them.iolvos against oven I
appearing to (ry to produce this effect, j
the American pross is free aud out
spoken, but, as a rulo, it is honest, ami
w lien, in order to be able to furnish now-,
newspaper men will suddonly cease ex
pressing opiuions and conilne them- |
•Ives to a bare narration of facts, the I
American public will imagine that the
uu-. io has been put on. Will they th hi if
' link, when newspaper criticisms cea- .
' nat the turf has all of a sudden become ™
a Arcadial' Will more people attend I
■ '! Qentlemon, if the newspaper
• • o not too clear-headed, too manly, •
generous, too anxious for the develop- f
.innt of tho turf, too glad to see some
body prospering, they would publish the
niter stretch, the paddock, tho bottle
ring gossip,which at times is so seandr.l |
on- as to sour the stotuach of even ;
i :ost hardened cynic. But ncwspai •.
re "i are men of the world; they attribu
a . >od deal of the talk to disgruntiuu i
b c'ings, disappointed hopes, envy on tti,
pet of owners, trainers, jockoys, nmi
'hey say nothing because their natures
: . net-ally are genorous and alwnv
nod on the broad, liberal basis of In '
i.uuiity, and they have far too great aid
• miration of the luxuriant ilower of
.ng development, spreading its petals
n the vigorous soil of the Vni'-ri-an turf, I
'o permit noxious weeds to id' -tor into
i -under tho light and Wii utli of their
\ml yet. some racing mnuag rs, owner
racing proportion, CIIIIM that reua
er- rtrc injuring their properties!
if. 'he prim -iif kilif' kills the trer :
•!' wo ding out the garden plot kil:.
10 flower!
At last, the Boston elub is fearful of
losing the lead in the pennant rai
Every man on the team from Kelly down
1- convinced of the necessity of playing
to win every game. As Manager Lo:': i
said to mo a week ago, the team is n
..eying the ball it was at the bcginniti,
• he season, and the Mow Yorks oug!
to have no difficulty in i apturing tli
■ad before many days. Fortunately for
the Bostons, • y have had in Indianap
oli.s and Flushing two of tlm weake -
■ -ains in the league to contend with, and
i fact ha aided it materially in n'
.iiitug the lead. In Chicago they haw
I.ad a club of a far stronger caliber to de
. and the result is aj parent. New
k, on tlio other hand, is beginning to
•t the weak end of the deal, and n sue.
■ sion of defeats will, 1 venture to say
- on plac the Giants a long way ii• tie
v,,u.
Ward told me tho other day, in answer
to a query, that tho league magnate are
afraid to discuss the classification rule
upon it merits with the brotherhood
people, it looks so, judging from tho
• "mmittue's aversion to holding a meet
ing.
Now that tho Chicago club has ob
tained Healy who will iill a weak spot in
tho personnel of the team, it ought lo
move up a trifle in the pennant race,
l oo material of the club is good, and
• is no reason for it occupying an in
position in tho race. The only
•:r.: nek seems to bo Anson himself
:. lias become so testy autl ill-humored
of lute that his men have become afrai
to take chances of making brilliant plays,
•earful of committing errors which will
incur li is displeasure. Time was when
Anson was a base ball idol. Everybody*
. limited him, the papers devoted col
umns to recounting his experiences am
he WHS revered by enthusiasts from om
ml of the country to the other, and held
up for example as the base hall playei
i.. excellence. Today he has few ndhe:
■itts where formerly he had thousands
The only thing to account for it is that
the people who watch and criticise base
i ail are not in sympathy with the nig
gardly, slave-driving methods which
lie has recourse to in handling
iiis men. He is continually making si
point about his team of gentlemen ball
players, but happily they are not classed
ui the .-amo category with himself. Ho
bullies iiis associates, bullies the umpire
d bullies the spectators, and succeeds
- t ling away with it sometimes, but
>t in this town. The base ball people
• i (ho metropolis are pretty well on to
Vnson, especially so after tlio exhibition
i i made of himself when here. Were :t
.; >t for the gentlemanly Fred Pfeffer. An
- m would many times make himself ;
pear more ludicrous than he does, I'IU
• r the circumstances is it to !>
vondered at that the Chicago tenia • "-s
not occupy a more advanced position in
the pennant struggle?
The bad luck which the Pittsburg-clt^i
hus experiencing is something ' -
I■ • regretted. A few weeks ago the team
was doing finely, and in their series at
home, where they hail tiie Giants for op
mients. put up as good a game of ba-•
null as any club in the league. When
hev enuio to New York, reinforced bv
White and Rows, they seemed to go uii
tn pieces. Tlneo defeats to New York
■artened them, and then they went
- Washington and dropped three'more,
'•is 'oti. y demoralize i the men, and
be chances are that a few weeks more
u II llnd t : j club contesting the tail etui
position wi'h Washington or Indanapii
lis. .Manager Phillips is to bo sympa
thized with in his dilemma.
H.v: illV WESTON',
Jews ill fa up Inc. '
The pro.-cnt population of Palestine is
estimated at about ft" . '. > souls, which
include a peculiar mixt ui ,f races. The
.Tews, who ai • mainly of Spanish, Ger
man, or p. II • in ai 1 descent, me
perhaps 90.ti<it) in mmib-'r. and live al
most exclusively iu the towns of .Jerusa
lem, Hebron, Tiberius and Safot. The
population of Jerusalem itself, which was
estimated fifty years ago not more than *"
11,000, has increased rapidly lato year-,
owing to an important influx of Jews.—
Exchange.
Indemnity for a King.
A curious story oonicsfroni Italy. The
heirs of King Joachim Murat, who, it
will bo remembered, was executed, have,
it seems, demanded an indemni'v .f
10,000,000 for the estates belonging tu
their ancestor in the former kingdom . t
Naples, which were confiscated after
return of the Neapolitan Bourbon
Ibid. Stranger still is the report
King Humbert's government lias ~
0(10,000 in liquidation of the claim.
Exchange.